Spam Kings: The Real Story behind the High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn, Pills, and %*@)# Enlar...
More than sixty percent of today's email traffic is spam, according to email filtering firm Brightmail. This year alone, five trillion spam message...
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Aug 15, 2008
Jamie
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The full title here is Spam Kings: The Real Story behind the High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn, Pills, and %*@)# Enlargements. I co-worker of mine used to get flabbergasted every time the topic of unsolicitted commercial e-mail, or Spam, was brought up. Not because it annoyed him, but because he just didn't understand how these people got away with it and how they did their work. Why didn't police just knock on their doors and arrest them? I was kind of interested in the same question, so I pi
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Oct 20, 2011
grundoon
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3.5 Certainly dredged up quite a few memories from a previous life. A number of friends and acquaintances make appearances, though not often in particularly flattering light. In fact, virtually nobody completely escapes the tar brush... I suppose this is seen as a more objective form of journalism? An interesting enough read that filled in some gaps for me, but I'm not sure it conveys so much a sense of "The Real Story" than a neutral narrative of selective fact-checked events.
Feb 25, 2010
Barrett
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Very detailed and well researched and all but... well... it almost completely takes place in the US of A, and there is a whole world of spammers out there who don't grace these pages even once.
Kinda like reading IM logs, mixed with court records, for hours.
Kinda like reading IM logs, mixed with court records, for hours.
Mar 02, 2009
Luciano
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This was great for the demonstration of ridiculous ego-charged capitalistic hyperactivity all the characters engage in that makes them almost unbelievable but it happened I guess.
Jul 30, 2011
Jacob
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Fun to read. I wrote a spam filter years ago, and it was very exciting to read this to figure out what the "other guy" was thinking.
Aug 16, 2010
just picked up today. sounds interesting....
update 8/16/10. Never read. Fiance read it, he is a self proclaimed computer nerd. Said the book was good.
update 8/16/10. Never read. Fiance read it, he is a self proclaimed computer nerd. Said the book was good.
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